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Wednesday evening:

Last night after work I headed right out to Harper College in Palatine, IL for our training group’s coached track workouts. On the plate were 9 – 800 meter repeats with a slow walk/jog 200 meter recovery time in between each repeat. So I ran a one mile warm-up session and after that I ran 6 – 100 meter stride outs with the group. Below are my 800 meter times with average and max HR info also:

800 meter – 3:28 – AHR 145bpm – MHR 151bpm
800 meter – 3:30 – AHR 144bpm – MHR 153bpm
800 meter – 3:19 – AHR 148bpm – MHR 157bpm
800 meter – 3:23 – AHR 146bpm – MHR 157bpm
800 meter – 3:22 – AHR 146bpm – MHR 157bpm
800 meter – 3:24 – AHR 148bpm – MHR 157bpm
800 meter – 3:22 – AHR 148bpm – MHR 159bpm
800 meter – 3:20 – AHR 149bpm – MHR 158bpm
800 meter – 3:18 – AHR 149bpm – MHR 161bpm

It seemed like to me it wasn’t till the 3rd repeat that I started to hit a consistent groove with my 800 pacing. I was able to push the pace a little more on the last two 800’s which was a good sign to me.

Total mileage for the night was 7.8 miles which included warm-up, stride outs, repeats, recoveries and cool down. This was more than enough speed workout for me for the night as I skipped the one mile time trial afterwards that most of the group did after the repeats…

We had a total of 4 different pace groups during the workout as I choose to run with a quicker group #2 last night to push myself further with my running speedwork to hopefully get a little quicker at running especially for the half IM event…it felt good to push it to the next level.

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